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Downton Abbey is PBS’s highest-rated drama, and some of the wittiest quotes from the series come from Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, played by the incomparable Maggie Smith. While you’re waiting for the next episode of season 4, check out some of Lady Violet’s best zingers and one-liners!

1. “What is a weekend?”

2. “Last night! He looked so well. Of course it would happen to a foreigner. No Englishman would dream of dying in someone else’s house.”

3. “I couldn’t have electricity in the house, I wouldn’t sleep a wink. All those vapors floating about.”